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2014-06-25

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<p>Practice in recent years is well-established: Private Members' Bills introduced
in the House of Lords are offered Second Reading slots in the order in which they
receive their First Reading. Second Readings for Private Members' Bills introduced
this session have been scheduled on Friday 27 June and Friday 18 July; further Second
Readings will be arranged in due course. A ballot to determine the order in which
Private Members' Bills receive their First Reading will be introduced from the start
of the new Parliament (3rd Report of the Procedure Committee, Session 2013-14).</p><p>For
Bills that receive a Second Reading, formal consideration of their remaining stages
will be arranged where no amendments are tabled and where the Member in charge so
requests. Where Bills receive a Second Reading but require further substantive consideration
of amendments, they will be competing for time with Private Members' Bills that are
received from the House of Commons and Private Members' Bills introduced in this House
that are still awaiting a Second Reading.</p><p>My noble friend the Government Chief
Whip will endeavour to facilitate the progress of bills in each of those categories.</p><p>
</p>

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Stowell
of Beeston on 6 May (WA 384), when they expect to receive the report of the review
being carried out by Social Finance into innovative models of providing temporary
accommodation for homeless families.

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Stowell
of Beeston on 6 May (WA 392), with which organisations representing private tenants
the Private Rented Sector Task Force has engaged since its establishment.

<p>The Private Rented Sector Taskforce work closely with my officials in developing
our policies in relation to the private rented sector. Together they engage with a
wide range of private sector tenant groups including Shelter, Crisis, Generation Rent
and its predecessor the National Private Tenant's Organisation, the National Union
of Students, as well as individual private tenant organisations.</p><p> </p>

<p> </p><p>Paragraph 3.3 of the current consultation states out that the Department
will hold further consultations during 2014 on the governance and transitional arrangements
for the firefighter pension reforms.</p><p> </p><p>The current consultation document,
which closes on the 4 July, can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-the-regulations-to-introduce-a-new-firefighters-pension-scheme-from-april-2015"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-the-regulations-to-introduce-a-new-firefighters-pension-scheme-from-april-2015</a>
and copies have been placed in the Library of the House.</p><p> </p>

<p> </p><p>On 16 June 2014 the Government signed a City Deal with the Tees Valley
in which the local leaders committed to develop plans to strengthen governance, including
progressing the idea of a combined authority for the area.</p><p> </p><p>It is for
the local areas themselves to decide, given their circumstances, what governance arrangements
will best enable effective and collaborative decision taking, which is transparent
and locally accountable, thus delivering successfully the implementation of the area's
Strategic Economic Plan. Where councils come forward with a proposal for a combined
authority that commands wide local support, if the Secretary of State considers that
the statutory conditions are met, he will invite Parliament to approve an Order which
enables the combined authority to be established.</p><p> </p>

<p>DECC's monthly consumption of gas and electricity since June 2010 can be viewed
in the attached appendix. The information provided covers those buildings occupied
by the core DECC department where we are directly billed or have estimates.</p><p>
</p>

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether his Department
issues guidance about the protocol of former armed forces personnel using their rank
as a title after they have left service.

<p>In 2012, it is estimated that there were approximately 2.83 million households
in Great Britain that did not have access to the gas network; 2.21 million of these
households were in England, 0.44 million in Scotland and 0.20 million in Wales.</p><p>Data
on gas connections in Northern Ireland, and data on the number of households within
500 meters of the gas grid, are not held by DECC.</p><p>These data are available at:</p><p><a
href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sub-national-estimates-of-households-not-connected-to-the-gas-network"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sub-national-estimates-of-households-not-connected-to-the-gas-network</a>.</p><p>
</p>

<p>The supply of propane gas in bulk and cylinder form is subject to UK competition
law under the Competition and Markets Authority; and Health and Safety Regulations.</p><p>The
study by the Office of Fair Trading into the off-grid energy market in 2011 showed
that on the whole competition works well, with consumers offered a good choice of
suppliers, and that the off-grid sector does not need price regulation.</p><p>Health
and Safety Regulations place obligations on propane gas suppliers so that the supplier
must ensure that the installation is safe to receive propane gas before refilling,
that the product is safely contained and that the installation is fitted with a pressure
regulator and other key safety devices.</p><p> </p>